does geography have 'key facts'?!?!?!??!!?
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Dr Hillary Shaw wrote:
> Item in today's Daily Mail, p.18, geography and history lessons may be
> stripped of their key facts. Also, A* and A** grades may be introduced in raection
> to too many pupils scoring A grades (couldn't be dumbing down could it ?) so
> aid university selection.
>
> Maybe they A* grade should be an Z and the A** grade a Y, as we reuse the
> end of the alphabet. By 2015 everyone will be scoring Ys and Zs, and we can
> upgrade the best to V, W, X. Then by 2040 all pupils will be getting M, N, O, P,
> and Q, and by ca. 2100 we will be back to the old E to A system. If we can
> halt grade inflation right there that'd be just fine.
>
> Dr Hillary J. Shaw
> School of Geography
> University of Southampton
> Highfield
> Southampton
> SO17 1BJ
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